The Coveted Gloomy Beta Roommate Chapter 20.3

Part 3

Beautiful, so beautiful it evoked the vilest thoughts in people’s hearts, making one want to ruthlessly hug the moon and defile that moonlight.

“Sorry, I was too stupid. I always accidentally got the photos dirty.”

Tang Xingye: “…”

During the days of meeting, Huo Zhe would always fantasize about Tang Xingye accidentally falling, and him using his face to catch him. That way, he could legitimately bury his head to feel the delicate skin’s softness and smell the fragrance emanating from the deepest parts.

To taste the richest nectar, eating it all without leaving a drop.

After fantasizing, he started getting anxious again. His nose bridge wasn’t high enough; what if the Senior disliked him?

“I didn’t expect Senior to leave a graduation gift for me. I haven’t used the pens in that pencil case; I kept every single one safe.”

“I’ve reduced the frequency now. I raised a puppy. By the way, the pet is a Ragdoll cat. Senior said you wanted to raise a cat and give it a dog’s name, but you were allergic to cats and couldn’t.”

Huo Zhe didn’t expect Tang Xingye to actually accept his confession. He just wanted to speak out his feelings. His slightly pale face turned flushed with excitement.

“Thank you, Senior. This is the gift I prepared, I hope you like it.”

After Huo Zhe finished speaking, he stuffed the kraft paper bag into Tang Xingye’s hand, turned around, and tried to run.

Tang Xingye grabbed his wrist. His clear eyes revealed calmness. “Was it you?”

Huo Zhe opened his eyes wide, confused. The flush on his face hadn’t faded yet. “Senior, what are you saying?”

Tang Xingye’s voice was soaked in indifference. “I can understand that you are currently very clear about what you are doing. Do you have full capacity for civil conduct?”

Tang Xingye’s finger pad could feel the abnormal beating of the pulse at Huo Zhe’s wrist. “I want to have a proper conversation, so can you answer my questions properly?”

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“Mn… Mn… Ah.”

Perhaps realizing what Tang Xingye was about to ask, Huo Zhe’s face turned back to its original pallor, and he smiled to cover it up.

“Was it you?”

Tang Xingye looked like a calm doctor watching an uncooperative patient, dissecting the other’s pathology slowly and methodically. “Stalking, secret photography, secretly taking the pens from my desk—”

“Just like you did in high school?”

In high school, Tang Xingye’s pens that were running out of ink would always disappear. Although they were things about to be discarded, things disappearing was still a bit troublesome. He tried putting money in the pencil case, yet the money was never lost.

He quickly realized who did it. But Huo Zhe suspended his schooling for a while due to his physical condition, their connection broke, and his trouble disappeared.

When Tang Xingye graduated, he bought a new set of the pens he had lost and left them for Huo Zhe.

“That pencil case wasn’t a gift. It was my warning. I knew it was you.”

If he didn’t speak clearly, Huo Zhe wouldn’t understand his meaning.

However, even saying this, Huo Zhe just shed tears, lowering his head to stare at the ground, daring not look at him.

“What are you crying for?”

“Senior, Senior, don’t hate me… Sorry, I didn’t mean to… I was just under too much pressure…” The Omega’s tears fell in big drops.

Grades sliding drastically in the Olympiad class was a lingering death by a thousand cuts. Doubting himself every day, ears filled with others’ ridicule.

People from the Omega Protection Association only spoke the same cliches. Did he not want to get better? He just couldn’t do it.

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Wanting to scream in collapse, wanting to go crazy. When he couldn’t sleep, when he was sick, only by thinking of Tang Xingye could he keep from breaking down.

Huo Zhe didn’t want Tang Xingye to hate him. His voice choked even more. “Don’t, don’t look at me with that kind of look… Senior can treat me however you want…”

Tang Xingye: “Are you asking others to treat you like a speck of mud under their feet to be treated at will? Is that how you want me to treat you?”

“No… Senior you aren’t that kind of person… I, I…”

The Omega’s tears had already soaked the front of his shirt, and he began to speak incoherently. That trembling body clutched tightly onto Tang Xingye’s wrist, as if he were the only driftwood in a deep sea capable of drowning him.

Tang Xingye: “Can I open your gift?”

“Of course, of course.”

Tang Xingye saw that inside were vouchers for various foods he liked, and two sealed cans of Omega pheromones. He must have eavesdropped on the content of his new project and specially drew them for him.

Judging by the concentration, they were drawn during a rut. No wonder his face was pale; an Omega’s physical constitution couldn’t compare to an Alpha’s, and recovery was slow. Huo Zhe’s health wasn’t good either; extracting pheromones must have been quite painful for him.

“Truly a gift prepared with considerable care.”

Tang Xingye could smell the cloying sweetness of out-of-control pheromones in the air, mixed with the salty, astringent scent of tears.

Tang Xingye lowered his eyes in thought for a moment. “Look up, look at me.”

Huo Zhe looked up. That tear-streaked face had confused eyes, appearing not to understand what Tang Xingye wanted to do.

Tang Xingye raised his hand, thumb brushing past the other’s red corner of the eye. Huo Zhe’s tears fell even harder, rolling down incessantly, wetting Tang Xingye’s palm.

“I won’t accept your gift. Take it back. This is a lesson for you.”

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Huo Zhe didn’t understand why Tang Xingye touched his face while refusing to accept his gift.

“I hate the things you do, Huo Zhe.”

“You are studying at a nearby school now, right? Those people who laughed at you don’t exist anymore. Don’t trap yourself in the past.”

Huo Zhe rubbed against Tang Xingye’s palm dependently, sniffing, and said intermittently, “I can’t do it, without you I can’t live…”

Tang Xingye said calmly, “You still have yourself. If you don’t even cherish yourself, no one can save you.”

“Secondary gender has never been an excuse. Omegas can be fragile, but cannot be fragile forever. Go study, go exercise. Don’t act spoiled here.”

“If I were you, I would make those who laughed at me pay the price. But it’s too late for revenge now; you can’t find them anymore. However, you still have hope, don’t you?”

Tang Xingye’s voice was very indifferent, yet carried a peculiar texture.

“To be able to study here, you don’t lack anything compared to those people. Currently, in academia, there isn’t a famous Omega with mental illness yet.”

The hand stroking him was still warm. Huo Zhe’s eyes trembled abruptly. Clear moonlight flowed down, and the suffocating feeling in his chest seemed to alleviate a little.

“We will meet in a formal setting.”

Tang Xingye: “Mn.”

On the other side of the corner.

Luo Bing, wearing sunglasses and a hat, was following Huo Zhe when suddenly his body felt pain. Someone slammed him ruthlessly onto the alley floor. The damp, moldy smell mixed with Alpha spiritual power exploded in the narrow space. Luo Bing let out a muffled sound of pain.

The Alpha holding him down moved fast and ruthlessly. A knee pressed against his lower back, and a single hand twisted his arms behind his back, giving no chance for a counterattack.

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Luo Bing’s cheek was pressed against the cold, dirty ground.

“Daring to tail an Omega near the school gate, you have some nerve.”

“I wasn’t…”

Ji Chen was too lazy to listen to his sophistry. He yanked him up like lifting a chick and dragged him directly toward the Student Council office. Luo Bing’s shoes scraped two wretched trails on the ground, yet uncharacteristically, he didn’t struggle.

In the Student Council office, the President pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses. On the screen behind him, the surveillance footage showed Luo Bing’s sneaky figure flickering at every corner Huo Zhe passed. His fingertip tapped the screen. “Explain.”

“Mute? Speak.” The Vice President kicked Luo Bing impatiently.

Ji Chen leaned coldly against the edge of the table, biting candy with a crunching sound. He looked down at this stalker who had zero desire to resist, finding it utterly boring.

Luo Bing stumbled two steps. “President, you got it wrong… I wasn’t stalking the Omega.”

The President folded his hands, lenses reflecting a cold light. “I’ve already watched the nearby surveillance. Where that Omega went, you went. You want to call it a coincidental passing by?”

Luo Bing curled his lips, muttering softly, “Who is interested in Omegas?”

Then, as if making up his mind, he raised his head. “I was collecting the things Tang Xingye touched.”

Ji Chen narrowed his eyes, the corners of his lips hooking into a dangerous arc. “What does this have to do with him?”

These words seemed to poke Luo Bing’s sore spot, his eyes suddenly dimming. “…He won’t let me follow him.”

No choice. Wife said he didn’t want to see him, didn’t let him follow.

Wife’s words cannot be disobeyed.

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